Apple’s FaceTime video calling is perhaps one of their most used features. It lets people with iPhones, iPads, and Macs make easy video calls to one another. You can’t make FaceTime calls from Android, but there are several other ways to make video calls—even to iPhone and Mac users. Every once in a while I find FaceTime, Apple’s most excellent video call feature, to be very helpful. There are occasions when I just can’t get in the same room with a client, and FaceTime is a great alternative to just a phone call.As a form of videoconferencing, it saves lots of time and money by eliminating travel and all the expenses associated with that. HideMyFaceTime simply creates a black box which follows the position of the FaceTime window. Clicking on the box allows you to change which corner of the FaceTime window HideMyFaceTime is attached to. Isn't there a better solution to just covering the video with a black box? Arguably, the iPhone gives its users the best photo-taking experience on any mobile device. From using the stock Camera app, to using a third-party app like Halide, what you can do without a DSLR is crazy. If you want to hide your phone number when calling someone on your iPhone, you have a handful of options available to you. In this post, we’ll go over these options and show you how to hide your caller ID and call someone without showing your number.
When you FaceTime with someone, whatever’s going on in the background can usually be seen as FaceTime basically uses your front-facing camera, so whatever the camera sees will be shown to the other person. This is unless you purposely position yourself with a neutral-looking background.
However it seems that Apple could have something in the works that could help hide your background. This is according to a recently discovered patent in which it details a system where FaceTime could help hide the background of users, so if you wanted a less distracting background or just wanted to prevent the other person from seeing how messy your room is, this could take care of it.
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However there’s no telling if Apple ever has plans to implement this patent and make it a feature of FaceTime. It does sound like it could be useful but whether or not it is necessary is unclear. Apple hasn’t really made many changes to FaceTime over the years, at least until iOS 12 where during WWDC 2018, Apple finally announced that FaceTime would gain group support for up to 32 users at once.
In any case what do you guys think of this patent? Is this a feature that you’d like to see come to FaceTime in the future?
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